Curriculum and Instruction Defined

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Education, Training, and DevelopmentFundamentals
and Foundationsfor Court Leaders
National Association For Court Management
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Learning Objectives

• By the end of the program participants will
• Understand how ETD supports the purposes and
  responsibilities of courts
• Be able to align ETD activities to the courts
  strategic vision and mission
• Be familiar with the Education, Training, And
  Development Core Competency Guideline, AND
• Know of various judicial branch education
  resources

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Context and Vision
The greatest issue for court leaders is how to
prepare ourselvesand our courts for the
future.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor
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Exercise The Highly Effective Judge/Court
Administrator

• Generate a list of attributes of A Highly
  Effective Judge/Administrator in the following
  areas
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Abilities
• Values
• Be prepared to report back to the full group.

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To contribute to the development of individuals,
courts, and the court management profession,
judicial branch education must

• Span the career of individuals, and not be
  limited to orientation or training to perform
  specific tasks
• Provide for significant interaction among program
  participants
• Include experienced professionals as faculty, and
  in the planning and a valuation process to ensure
  really and perceived problems are addressed in
  every program
• Address a wide variety of topics, both practical
  and theoretical.
• NACM Core Competencies
• Education, Training, And Development Curriculum
  Guidelines

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Education, Training DevelopmentCurriculum
Guidelines

• Context and Vision
• Resource Development
• Adult Education Fundamentals
• Program Management
• Evaluation

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Seven Characteristics of Effective Education,
Training andDevelopment Programs
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1st Characteristic of Effective Education
Programs

• Commitment and Support of Leadership
• The only people who can provide genuine
  leadership in judicial education are those who
  have a kind of dual visionvision that sees the
  intertwining nature of change in organizations
  and change in people.

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2nd Characteristic of Effective Education
Programs

• A Clear and Compelling Purpose
• What is it we are really trying to achieve?
• The goal of Judicial Branch Education is to
  maintain and improve the professional competency
  of all persons within the judiciary, thereby
  enhancing the performance of the judicial system
  as a whole.

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3rd Characteristic of Effective Education
Programs

• Helping Professionals Think in Qualitatively
  Richer Ways
• Professor Paul Wangerin of Tulane Law School says
  that law schools do a good job of helping
  students think in analytical, objective ways,
  they do not foster development of the abilities
  required to see a case in its context and then
  take action consistent with the multilayered
  nature of so many legal situations.

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4th Characteristic of Effective Education
Programs

• Helping Professionals become more Competent
• What is it we are really trying to achieve?

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5th Characteristic of Effective Education
Programs

• Active Learning
• Students do not learn much just sitting in
  classes listening to teachers, memorizing
  prepackaged assignments, and spitting out
  answers. They must talk about what they are
  learning, write reflectively about it, relate it
  to past experiences, and apply it to their daily
  lives. They must make what they learn part of
  themselves.
• - Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann

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6th Characteristic of Effective Education
Programs

• Adequate Resources
• Faculty
• Planning Committees
• Funding

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7th Characteristic of Effective Education
Programs

• A Sound Integrated Curriculum
• Curriculum is defined as all the experiences
  provided by the institution or agency which are
  designed to foster student learning.

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Courts as Learning Organizations
Courts will change only when the people within
them change.
Charles ClaxtonFormer Director, Leadership
Institute in Judicial Education
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A learning organization is where

• Every Individual in the organization is growing
  or enhancing their capacities to create and
  contribute.
• People feel they are doing something that matters
  to them personally and to the world.
• Learning is an ongoing and creative process for
  its members.
• The organization continually becomes aware of its
  underlying knowledge base-particularly the store
  of tacit, unarticulated knowledge of employees

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A learning organization is where

• Employees at all levels, individually and
  collectively, continually increase their capacity
  to produce results they really care about.
• Employees are invited to learn what is going on
  at every level of the organization, so they can
  understand how their actions influence others.
• People treat each other as colleagues. Theres
  mutual respect and trust in the way they talk to
  each other, and work together, no matter what
  their positions may be.

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A Learning Organization and Individual Learning
Organizations learn only through individuals who
learn. Individual learning does not guarantee
organizational learning. But without it no
organizational learning occurs.
Peter Senge The Fifth Discipline, The Art
Practice of The Learning Organization
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Five Disciplines Of The Learning Organization

• Personal Mastery
• Commitment to lifelong learning
• Mental Models
• How we understand problems and interact with
  others
• Shared Vision building
• Identify future goals and directions

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Five Disciplines Of The Learning Organization

• Team Learning
• Capitalize on strengths of all members
• Systems Thinking
• Relationships between function, people, company,
  environment

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Judicial Branch EducationResources

• JERITT
• National Judicial Branch Education Providers
• Monographs
• State Justice Institute

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Continuing Professional Education is, in my
view, the single most important tool we have in
the judiciary to help us cope with the constant
change and challenges that are inherent in our
jobs.
Justice Christine Durham Chief Justice, Utah
Supreme Court